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Whilst trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 on an old Dell Dimension 1100 the Ubuntu installer would start up and once it got to the stage to do the partitioning parted would error.  parted reported to check /var/log/syslog for more information.
The error was along the lines of:
Ubiquity: parted_server error while loading shared libraries /lib/libparted-1.8.so.12
Thinking that the [...]

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Lots of articles online talk about how to get Plesk to pass PCI compliance, especially the TCP port 8443 which Plesk listens on.
From Plesk 8.x (which most of the articles are written for) to Plesk 9.x Parallels changed to another webserver (away from apache), so,  adding the /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/httpsd.custom.include file and restarting psa does NOT help.
The [...]

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Was using Free PHP Formmail Generator : http://phpfmg.sourceforge.net to send the contents of a form and when sending to most mail servers/mail clients it would work great.  When sending to a Microsoft Exchange server the HTML contents of the email was displayed as text (not marked up).
Tried this with PHP4 and PHP5 and had the [...]

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Had a problem with Magento stores not loading and the following errors were being presented when going to the site.
Error:
SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 145 Table ‘./magento/log_visitor_info’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired
Trace:
#0 /var/www/vhosts/magento/httpdocs/lib/Zend/Db/Statement.php(283): Zend_Db_Statement_Pdo->_execute(Array)
#1 /var/www/vhosts/magento/httpdocs/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php(457): Zend_Db_Statement->execute(Array)
#2 /var/www/vhosts/magento/httpdocs/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php(230): Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->query(‘INSERT INTO `lo…’, Array)
#3 /var/www/vhosts/magento/httpdocs/lib/Varien/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Mysql.php(281): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract->query(‘INSERT INTO `lo…’, Array)
#4 /var/www/vhosts/magento/httpdocs/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php(535): Varien_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql->query(‘INSERT INTO `lo…’, Array)
#5 /var/www/vhosts/magento/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Log/Model/Mysql4/Visitor.php(125): Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->insert(‘log_visitor_inf…’, Array)
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PCI was failing due to expired certificates on TCP ports: smtp (25), urd (465), imaps (993) and pop3s (995)
System running Plesk 9.2 and imaps and pop3s was handled by courier.
Updated the self signed certs for courier pop3s and imaps by:
[bash]# cd /usr/share/courier-imap
[bash]# cp imapd.pem imapd.pem.old
[bash]# cp pop3d.pem pop3d.pem.old
[bash]# ./mkimapdcert
[bash]# ./mkpop3dcert
[bash]# /etc/init.d/courier-imap restart
Stopping Courier-IMAP server:
$   Stopping [...]

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